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The murder of Jill Halliburton Su [True Crime documentary] · NO FILTER

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  Speaker 1: Say you can hold me up to a polygraphist at
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  Speaker 1: any years time, asks me any questioning wish in my
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  Speaker 1: ass for remains saying I did not kill missus Sue.
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  Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I'm Kevin and welcome to Just Thought Lounge.
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  Speaker 2: JTL is the true crime channel that delivers serious, well
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  Speaker 2: balanced coverage of the cases that really make you think.
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  Speaker 2: We're about to take a look at a case that
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  Speaker 2: has been called one of the weirdest in Florida's history.
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  Speaker 2: In September twenty fourteen, fifty nine year old wife and
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  Speaker 2: mother Jill Haliburton Sue, was found by her twenty year
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  Speaker 2: old son dead in her bathroom. Two knives were found
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  Speaker 2: out of place in the house, but only one was
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  Speaker 2: the murder weapon. A single room in the home had
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  Speaker 2: been ransacked, but the rest of the house was largely spotless.
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  Speaker 2: The security system provided a live feed of an intruder,
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  Speaker 2: visible in real time to Jill's husband as he sat
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  Speaker 2: at work unable to intervene. The murder appeared to be personal,
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  Speaker 2: but the scene suggested a botched burglary or was it staged.
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  Speaker 2: When the alleged perpetrator was finally arrested, the case made
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  Speaker 2: even more headlines. Over seven years later, the case has
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  Speaker 2: been closed, but many questions remained. Let's take a look.
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  Speaker 2: Jill Haliburton Sue was the grand niece of the founder
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  Speaker 2: of the Haliburton Oil Empire. She met her husband, Nanyao
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  Speaker 2: while on her junior year broad in Japan, where nan
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  Speaker 2: Yao's family had relocated from Taiwan. Jill graduated Michigan State
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  Speaker 2: University with a master's degree and then joined Nanyao in Hawaii,
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  Speaker 2: where he had entered a PhD program. The couple started
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  Speaker 2: their family after they relocated to Florida in the early
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  Speaker 2: nineteen nineties, where Nanyao was offered a faculty position at
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  Speaker 2: the State University there. They had two children, Amanda followed
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  Speaker 2: three years long later by Justin. Jill stayed at home
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  Speaker 2: with the kids. As her children grew older, she began
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  Speaker 2: to volunteer her time to charities more and more, logging
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  Speaker 2: over one thousand hours over nine years as a reader
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  Speaker 2: for the visually impaired. In twenty fourteen, Jill Sue was
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  Speaker 2: fifty nine years old. The family had a beautiful home
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  Speaker 2: situated in a gated community in the town of Davy,
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  Speaker 2: which is about twenty five miles north of Miami. In
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  Speaker 2: August of that year, Jill and Nanyoo left for a
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  Speaker 2: two week trip to Malaysia, leaving their twenty year old
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  Speaker 2: son Justin with the house to himself. Shortly before leaving,
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  Speaker 2: they had also decided that a video surveillance system for
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  Speaker 2: the house may be a good investment, so they started
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  Speaker 2: a thirty day free trial. The day after returning from
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  Speaker 2: their trip was the eighth of September Monday. Justin left
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  Speaker 2: the house sometime around nine am that morning to attend
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  Speaker 2: his college classes. Nanyoo set out for work a bit
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  Speaker 2: later on, at around eleven thirty maybe closer to eleven
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  Speaker 2: forty am. Their daughter, Mandy, had moved out years prior,
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  Speaker 2: so Jill was at home that day alone. Once at work,
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  Speaker 2: nan Yow checked the live video feed from the house
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  Speaker 2: on his phone, as had become his habit since starting
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  Speaker 2: the security system trial. What he saw that morning was concerning.
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  Speaker 2: There appeared to be a strange man and apparent intruder
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  Speaker 2: inside of his house. Nan Yow called his son Justin
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  Speaker 2: right away, initially hoping it was a joke being played
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  Speaker 2: by his son. When they spoke, however, it became clear
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  Speaker 2: that this was no joke, and Justin promptly drove home
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  Speaker 2: to check on his mother. He made it back to
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  Speaker 2: the house at twelve thirty seven, roughly an hour from
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  Speaker 2: the time that his father had left, but the house
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  Speaker 2: was not as Justin had left it. Going through the
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  Speaker 2: master bedroom to the bathroom, he found his mother, Jill
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  Speaker 2: was in the bathtub, face down bound, bleeding and not responsive.
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  Speaker 2: Justin pulled his mother from the tub, and he began
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  Speaker 2: to perform CPR. He then called nine to one one.
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  Speaker 2: He told the dispatcher that his mother had committed suicide,
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  Speaker 2: that she had stabbed herself and thrown herself in the bathtub.
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  Speaker 2: His father would later recount that Justin was frantic after
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  Speaker 2: finding his mother and not making a lot of sense
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  Speaker 2: when Nanyoo arrived. Emergency services had beat him to the property.
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  Speaker 2: He could not understand why the responders were no longer
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  Speaker 2: working to save his wife. He understood only later that
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  Speaker 2: it had been far too late to save Jill. Jill
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  Speaker 2: Sue died that morning. She had suffered an estimated twenty
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  Speaker 2: six distinct stab wounds. In addition to the intruder that
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  Speaker 2: Nanyao spotted on his security feed, the house showed physical
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  Speaker 2: signs of a break in. Jewelry boxes in the master
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  Speaker 2: bedroom appeared to have been rifled through. Dresser drawers had
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  Speaker 2: been pulled open and left in disarray. There was also
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  Speaker 2: damage to the closet, where investigators deduced that an alarm
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  Speaker 2: had been pulled from the wall. Broken glass and a
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  Speaker 2: busted patio door near to the master bedroom suggested a
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  Speaker 2: means of entry and left broken charts of glass scattered
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  Speaker 2: on the floor. The front door to the house was
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  Speaker 2: reportedly locked. Just outside of it was a knife discarded
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  Speaker 2: on the ground. Inside the same door, a looped green
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  Speaker 2: belt was lying on the ground in the foyer. Jill
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  Speaker 2: had been discovered bound with electrical wire, leading investigators to
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  Speaker 2: believe that this green belt had likewise been used to
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  Speaker 2: restrain her at some point during the attack. There were
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  Speaker 2: numerous markings on the walls and floors, and in the
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  Speaker 2: bedroom near to the bathroom a broken vase a pillow
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  Speaker 2: showing blood, as well as spatter in this area on
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  Speaker 2: the carpet. The evidence suggested that a struggle had occurred.
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  Speaker 2: Inside the bathroom, a second knife was found resting in
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  Speaker 2: the bottom of the bathtub. Either this knife or both
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  Speaker 2: knives were thought to be likely candidates, as the murder weapon.
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  Speaker 2: Two knives could also have suggested two attackers. They were
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  Speaker 2: collected for forensic analysis, along with the belt left in
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  Speaker 2: the foyer. Investigators ruled out a likely robbery rather quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Although the master bedroom showed multiple signs of a potential burglar,
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the house was left untouched. In addition,
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  Speaker 2: there was nothing that was identified as missing. While early
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  Speaker 2: theories were still being formed, investigators brought in the men
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  Speaker 2: of the household for questioning. By all accounts, the sues
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  Speaker 2: had a happy marriage. Money was not an issue. Not
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  Speaker 2: only was Jill thought to have family inheritance, but her
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  Speaker 2: husband was independently wealthy. An internationally recognized termite expert, he
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  Speaker 2: had invented a termite management system that was manufactured by
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  Speaker 2: Dow Chemical. When he spoke with police, he told them
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  Speaker 2: of the intruder he had viewed on the home surveillance system.
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  Speaker 2: The man was masked, he said, or perhaps had concealed
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  Speaker 2: his face with a scarf. He appeared to be young,
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  Speaker 2: thin and white. He has asked about his reaction when
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  Speaker 2: spotting the intruder. Nanyow explained that he thought it was
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  Speaker 2: possible that his son Justin was playing a prank because
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  Speaker 2: he knew his father watched the cameras. Justin also admitted
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  Speaker 2: to sometimes blocking the cameras when he helped parties, as
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  Speaker 2: he had just done a couple of days prior.
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  Speaker 3: For example, when I was in Malaysia, I was giving
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  Speaker 3: a talk, presentation or something.
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  Speaker 4: I was very busy, and then my cell phone ringing.
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  Speaker 4: It's from my gatehouse. It's like you know at night
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  Speaker 4: for at the time, and it says I didn't pick
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  Speaker 4: up the phone, but I know what call is about.
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  Speaker 5: It.
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  Speaker 4: I probably want to get somebody get into my house
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  Speaker 4: because the way it walk is they will call some
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  Speaker 4: phone here and there and to see if they can
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  Speaker 4: get this one person in or not. But I didn't
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  Speaker 4: pick up the phone. I have no idea who's trying
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  Speaker 4: to get in. But immediately turn on my camera from
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  Speaker 4: the dining room side. Because the other side of Canada
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  Speaker 4: was being he put a cap on it to disable it.
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  Speaker 4: Although we can still hear the voice, but the other
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  Speaker 4: phone I can look that. He has to see some
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  Speaker 4: people are moving there, you know, one some of his
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  Speaker 4: friends coming over. So he made the text messages. Why
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  Speaker 4: on the weekday you have a friend over. You're not
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  Speaker 4: supposed to do on the weekday. You're supposed to be
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  Speaker 4: go to your time for study, so do not do that,
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  Speaker 4: and whoever is there, get them out. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to see these people in my house. And he obviously,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he takes message one more time and say
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, will never happen again, and everybody's.
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  Speaker 6: Out, and those type of things.
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  Speaker 4: We get into it because he'd like to have his
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  Speaker 4: friend over, and but he is kind of away the
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  Speaker 4: fact that we do not necessarily like him to do
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  Speaker 4: that on the weekday when he's supposed to a study,
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  Speaker 4: so he only go out.
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  Speaker 7: In the weekly.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, he is rather want to hang around
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  Speaker 4: with his friend a lot of more than doing with us.
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  Speaker 4: That's the only thing I can think of.
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  Speaker 2: Nanielle also helpfully suggested that as two cameras were unplugged,
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  Speaker 2: that the murderer must have been someone who knew about
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  Speaker 2: the new security system and perhaps the exact camera placement.
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  Speaker 4: The other thing I can think of is if we
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  Speaker 4: able to did this, no way the security camera is
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  Speaker 4: because both of them being pumplant that didn't know this camera.
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  Speaker 6: Well, let me ask you who knows where these.
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  Speaker 3: Security are my son.
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  Speaker 6: He's the only one.
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  Speaker 8: You're like, you don't have people over, you haven't talked
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  Speaker 8: about Okay, you.
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  Speaker 6: Have a large amount of valuables inside the house.
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  Speaker 9: No, okay, you ever had any enemies and any problems
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  Speaker 9: with anybody that have you ever had any kind of
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  Speaker 9: incidence like this before somebody's trying to break into your
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  Speaker 9: home or anything like that.
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  Speaker 4: No, we lived in the house for fourteen years. They
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  Speaker 4: will break in all you.
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  Speaker 6: I mentioned that your son was away for a while.
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  Speaker 6: How long was he away?
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  Speaker 10: Two years?
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  Speaker 6: And and from what time frame to what time frame?
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  Speaker 6: When did he come back?
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  Speaker 10: Ah?
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  Speaker 6: You come back?
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  Speaker 4: This is me so subtut to you.
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  Speaker 6: How so he left in twenty twelve, more thaners.
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  Speaker 2: For the two years that Justin had spent away from home.
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  Speaker 2: He was studying at Stetson University, based in central Florida,
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  Speaker 2: but he had quickly found himself on academic probation. By
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  Speaker 2: the autumn of twenty fourteen, Justin had dropped out and
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  Speaker 2: moved back home. He was taking classes at the local
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  Speaker 2: community college, but his relationship with his parents had become
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  Speaker 2: strained over the ordeal. It's probably not surprising that the
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  Speaker 2: first suspicions of investigators landed on Justin. When police arrived
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  Speaker 2: at the house that morning following the nine to one
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  Speaker 2: one call, he remained what was reported as spotless from
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  Speaker 2: the waist down, an indication that perhaps he had tried
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  Speaker 2: to change his clothing before law enforcement arrived. It was
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  Speaker 2: also telling thought police that both knives found at the
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  Speaker 2: scene had been his. The one in the bathtub had
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  Speaker 2: been a gift from his mother for his knife collection.
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  Speaker 2: During Justin's interview, he first told police that he was
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  Speaker 2: in school that morning, and then later admitted he was
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  Speaker 2: sleeping in his car in the school parking garage. Justin
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  Speaker 2: said he had driven home after speaking with his father
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  Speaker 2: and then immediately went to his room to drop off
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  Speaker 2: his keys and his wallet. There, he noticed his knife
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  Speaker 2: drawer was open. He promptly went to check on his mother.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives jumped on that detail, questioning why he would have
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  Speaker 2: gone to his room first and not immediately checked on Jill.
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  Speaker 2: Justin was questioned for no less than ten hours on
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  Speaker 2: the day his mother died. He was held for closer
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  Speaker 2: to thirteen. For the first six hours, the detectives were
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  Speaker 2: quiet and accommodating to the twenty year old. He had
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  Speaker 2: just experienced an unimaginable tragedy that morning, but after the
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  Speaker 2: six hour mark, the tone began to shift sharply. The
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  Speaker 2: detectives pushed the theory that Justin killed his mother and
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  Speaker 2: staged a burglary.
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  Speaker 11: So he told one killed herself in the Bathtob, That's
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  Speaker 11: why I thought, Oh, but she was already out.
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  Speaker 6: That's why I told my dad she was already out.
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  Speaker 6: When you're on the phone out, Yeah, So by that,
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  Speaker 6: when you knew that she hadn't killed herself in the Bathtob. No, honestly,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, but.
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  Speaker 11: That's not what you said. This there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 11: lot of you trying to remember your life.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, it's not man like, I said man like.
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  Speaker 11: And that's gonna be a lot harder.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what you do once I saw my
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  Speaker 7: mom's body, Man, I don't know.
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  Speaker 11: It is. You thought you're smarter than everybody else, and
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  Speaker 11: now you're trying to remember your own lives and.
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  Speaker 6: You're eating them. It's much harder to try to remember
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  Speaker 6: your life.
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  Speaker 7: I'm so stressed right now, man Like, I do anything though?
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  Speaker 6: You did you to her mother?
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  Speaker 12: I did it.
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  Speaker 3: I did it your mother, I did it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh I did it.
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  Speaker 1: You know I did it?
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  Speaker 6: You know I did?
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  Speaker 10: Sir?
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  Speaker 7: You did it?
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  Speaker 13: No?
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  Speaker 14: I did?
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  Speaker 7: Thousand ten percent?
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  Speaker 10: Sure did?
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  Speaker 6: No, No I didn't. No I didn't. So obvious.
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  Speaker 10: No I didn't.
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  Speaker 12: You did it?
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  Speaker 15: No I didn't.
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  Speaker 13: No I did.
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  Speaker 12: I didn't try covering up anything.
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  Speaker 15: I didn't try doing anything.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't.
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  Speaker 14: Just stayed.
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  Speaker 6: I was at PC the whole time.
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  Speaker 11: Dude, trying to get trying to get dispatch A thousand
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  Speaker 11: different reasons why it happened.
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  Speaker 6: When you know, well, respatch a thousand reasons. Yeah, would
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  Speaker 6: have stood up like ten times on him, would I say,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going to tell you what you said?
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  Speaker 10: Dude?
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  Speaker 13: I was so confused.
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  Speaker 11: I thought I know what you said because I took
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  Speaker 11: detailed notes about what you said.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, okay, So you don't.
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  Speaker 11: Remember what you said because you're trying to remember what
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  Speaker 11: you said.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives spent another three hours interrogating Justin in the same manner.
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  Speaker 2: The younger man's voice turned horse from screaming back at
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  Speaker 2: them that he had nothing to do with his mother's death.
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  Speaker 2: The approach being employed by the detectives appeared to consist
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  Speaker 2: of accusing him harshly and repeatedly. Crucially, the investigators had
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  Speaker 2: not determined what Justin's motive would have been.
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  Speaker 10: I didn't do it. I didn't do it, couldn't have
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  Speaker 10: done it. Why couldn't you have done it? Because I
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  Speaker 10: love my mom m HM and I love my family.
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  Speaker 10: I wouldn't want to distribute it. She was the clue
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  Speaker 10: in our family, man. She she held her family together. Like, honestly,
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  Speaker 10: I can't even see living with my dad and be crazy.
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  Speaker 6: It's really strict and ship.
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  Speaker 7: I need I need her.
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  Speaker 10: I needed her in my life. I need her in
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  Speaker 10: my life.
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  Speaker 6: Still she's gone.
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  Speaker 7: Like, I don't know what else I can say. Man,
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  Speaker 7: but I didn't do it. I love my mom and
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  Speaker 7: someone springing on deads.
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  Speaker 2: Justin told investigators that he expected an apology when they
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  Speaker 2: found out that they were wrong. That apology would come.
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  Speaker 2: A week and a half later. Justin was cleared as
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  Speaker 2: a suspect after DNA results on the knives and the
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  Speaker 2: green belts were returned from the crime lab. The knife
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  Speaker 2: located outside the front door, as well as the belt
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  Speaker 2: discarded inside, both showed a match to another twenty year
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  Speaker 2: old man. That man's name is Deontae Rizilliz. Deonte lived
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  Speaker 2: roughly twenty miles from the Sioux's gated community and had
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  Speaker 2: acquired a criminal history of traveling to nearby upscale neighborhoods,
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  Speaker 2: breaking into homes, and making off with valuables. Deonta had
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  Speaker 2: no links to the Sioux family or their house, yet
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  Speaker 2: DNA placed him not only inside, but on key items
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  Speaker 2: connected to the murder. Investigators now had a new theory.
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  Speaker 2: Deonte Rizillez broke into the Sioux home and was surprised
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  Speaker 2: by Jill's presence. A struggle ensued. Deonte then killed Jill
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  Speaker 2: so she would be unable to identify him. Deante Omar
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  Speaker 2: Rizillz is known to his family as Mucci, a nickname
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  Speaker 2: he may have earned because as a child he ate
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  Speaker 2: so much. Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, Deante was an
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  Speaker 2: atypical child. He stood out. He excelled at school from
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  Speaker 2: an early age, was adored by his teachers, and was
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  Speaker 2: a voracious reader. By his teenage years, however, Deante was
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  Speaker 2: acting out and getting into trouble. He complained that his
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  Speaker 2: classes had become extremely boring to him, so he began
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  Speaker 2: to skip out and spent time with the wrong crowd.
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  Speaker 2: By the age of eighteen, he had accumulated eight juvenile arrests,
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  Speaker 2: mostly for burglary, but Deante did not have a history
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  Speaker 2: of violence, according to previous arrest warrants. His method of
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  Speaker 2: operation involved renting expensive cars and wearing disguises that could
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  Speaker 2: help explain his presence in the wealthy neighborhoods he targeted.
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  Speaker 2: At nineteen, he was arrested by Boca Ratan police while
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  Speaker 2: driving a rented Mercedes Benz and wearing a bright green
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  Speaker 2: fluorescent construction vest. In another instance, when he entered a
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  Speaker 2: home where the residents had not left, instead of attacking
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  Speaker 2: the homeowner, he simply fled. Mucci was known around his
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  Speaker 2: neighborhood as a kind of Robin Hood like figure. He
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  Speaker 2: was very generous with his stolen wealth, paying for others
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  Speaker 2: energy bills and back rent payments, dropping one thousand dollars
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  Speaker 2: a time in diaper and food trips at Walmart for
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  Speaker 2: struggling single mothers. He was also known as a bit
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  Speaker 2: of a ladies man. On the eighteenth of September twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: when the DNA led to his arrest for the murder
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  Speaker 2: of Jill Halliburt and Sue Deonte was an expectant father,
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  Speaker 2: a well loved and adored brother, son, and neighbor. No
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  Speaker 2: one believe believed that he was capable of what he
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  Speaker 2: had been accused. Deante faced a potential death sentence if
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  Speaker 2: convicted of Jill Sue's murder. He was held in custody
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  Speaker 2: without bond while the public Defender's office pulled together his defense.
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  Speaker 2: They were optimistic that a pre trial hearing addressing a
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  Speaker 2: motion to remove the death penalty as an option would
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  Speaker 2: be successful. By the summer of twenty sixteen, however, Deonte
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  Speaker 2: remained in custody. During this time, he had become a
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  Speaker 2: father to a daughter who was already approaching two years old.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Unable to do much about his legal situation, Deante began
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: to plan his escape from the jail. He managed to
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: connect with three different women, each of which believed they
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: were his girlfriend, and coordinated a plan. He also reached
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: out to family members, including two cousins, and asked for
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: small amounts of cash, one hundred dollars per bond, another
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars per a new suit for trial. Then,
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: on July fifteenth of that year, at as he entered
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: the courtroom for his pre trial hearing and sat down,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: he managed to unlatch his handcuffs and ankle shackles, shed
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: his jail jumpsuit, and made a break for an exit
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: located in a side stairwell. None of the lawyers or
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: bailiffs inside the courtroom appeared to notice what was happening
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: until it was too late. One bailiff was caught on
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: camera running after him while others stood in confusion. Pushing
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: through the north exit without triggering an alarm, he jumped
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: into a nearby waiting vehicle and drove off.
• 19:32
  Speaker 14: Twenty one year old murder suspect is not in custody
• 19:35
  Speaker 14: at this time. This escape was pre planned. We know
• 19:41
  Speaker 14: that Risiles had accomplices. We were actively serving search warrants
• 19:47
  Speaker 14: and applying for search warrants as we speak. I hope
• 19:51
  Speaker 14: and pray that our deputies or any law enforcement that
• 19:54
  Speaker 14: comes in contact with him are able to put him
• 19:56
  Speaker 14: in custody and are unharmed. I hope Resiles is on,
• 20:00
  Speaker 14: but he is armed and dangerous.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: From the jailhouse. Using a process of three way calling,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Deonte had managed to connect with multiple individuals undetected by
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: jailhouse monitors and coordinated his escape. One of Deonta's girlfriends
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: had arranged a change of clothing for him, and along
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: with another accomplice, Winston Russell, they had waited for him
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: outside of the side exit of the courthouse building. His
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: two cousins, Craton and Trayvon Barnes, played look out inside
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the courtroom, notifying the getaway vehicle of Deante's escape and
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: his direction of travel by cell phone. Bailiff's seemingly completely
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: unaware of what had transpired, watched an amazement while Deante
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: ran from the room. A fellow inmate, Walter Hart, had
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: allegedly loosened Deante's handcuffs using a key that Deante had
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: acquired from a jail guard. This guard was later determined
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: to be yet another willing accomplice. The guard was later
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: fired or he may have resigned. The reward for information
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: leading to Deonta's capture steadily increased throughout the week following
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: his escape to fifty thousand dollars. There were reported sightings
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of him coming in from throughout the country. Flights from
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Florida airports were checked, amongst rumors that he had somehow
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: caught a flight to Haiti. Meanwhile, people in his community
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: approached for questioning outright refused to assist police. Local media
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: reported neighbours telling investigators that even if they did know
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: where Deonte was, they wouldn't give up the information in
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: exchange for the cash reward. Many others actively called in
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: fake tips about his whereabouts and attempts to hinder his capture. Eventually, however,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: one of the tips received was genuine. Police track Deonte
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to a day's inn in West Palm Beach. Multiple swat
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: teams descended on the rental room where he had been hiding,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: eating pizza and waiting for an opportunity to make his
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: next move.
• 21:59
  Speaker 14: He came out of the room. He's surrendered without incident.
• 22:03
  Speaker 14: He laid on the ground. He allowed us to handcuff him.
• 22:08
  Speaker 14: No force was necessary. It's a great sense of relief.
• 22:11
  Speaker 14: You know, we had a man who's on trial for murder.
• 22:14
  Speaker 14: The state attorney is seeking the death penalty. It's a
• 22:17
  Speaker 14: very you know, it doesn't get more serious than that.
• 22:21
  Speaker 14: He's back in custody, and Broward County in South Florida
• 22:24
  Speaker 14: is a safer place.
• 22:28
  Speaker 13: A lot of people question themself, well, if he's in it,
• 22:31
  Speaker 13: so why would he esteek. I'll need a person to
• 22:33
  Speaker 13: answer for you. I currently have a dad unless I
• 22:35
  Speaker 13: have not seen or heir from both down and that
• 22:38
  Speaker 13: you tell me if he had been placed in jail
• 22:40
  Speaker 13: for a crime you know nothing about or never committed,
• 22:43
  Speaker 13: which you sit in jail. Let me ask it for
• 22:46
  Speaker 13: you logically, So there were still is trying to kill
• 22:50
  Speaker 13: me by luked injection, I don't know if you ever
• 22:52
  Speaker 13: witnessed it happen. You should go to YouTube or read
• 22:55
  Speaker 13: upon it. My voice was not heard when I pleaded
• 22:58
  Speaker 13: my MCCT it went overlook. I'm curised to be one
• 23:01
  Speaker 13: of those in expects senates overturned because of Davis fliends
• 23:05
  Speaker 13: that might overlooked and when made a discover again, I
• 23:08
  Speaker 13: was saying my name is Dan Javid jenisman Annis.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Multiple additional charges were added to Deante's list of indictments
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: following his capture. He was also restricted from communicating inside
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: the jailhouse with anyone but his lawyer, but Deonte proved
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: to be persistent in his attempts to beat the system
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the next year, in twenty seventeen, an investigation began after
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: a jail officer reported to supervisors that Deonte had attempted
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: to bribe him in a letter to smuggle in a
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: cell phone the officer reported the letter, so Deonte was
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: given a phone, a wiretapped one, and throughout the next
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: several months, Broward County Sheriff's Office, in coordination with the FBI,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: listened in and tracked roughly twelve hundred phone calls and
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: text messages from the monitored phone. The Rico investigation, dubbed
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Operation Rico Suavee, reveals the assistance in various ways of
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: nine individuals willing to help Deonta produce false evidence for
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: his trial, including a fake alibi. Believing the calls were
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: not being recorded, Deonte called friends and asked them to
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: testify that he'd been in Georgia when the murder happened,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: even though his cell phone records showed he was in
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Fort Lauderdale that day. It was late twenty twenty one
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: before Deonte went to trial.
• 24:30
  Speaker 12: You reach a verdict that speaks the truth and called
• 24:34
  Speaker 12: Dion Higgerson's responsible for the murders.
• 24:40
  Speaker 14: The DNA evidence is not going to show you who
• 24:43
  Speaker 14: killed Jill Sue. It's not going to prove that Deontay
• 24:48
  Speaker 14: Riscilla's killed Jill Sue.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: The defense team pointed the finger at Justin Sue and
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: attempted to discount the DNA evidence. They also suggested that
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: an insufficient amount of attention had been paid to Nan
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Yao as the potential suspect in the days after the murder.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: When nan Yao took the stand, he altered slightly his
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: recollection of the video surveillance footage that he had viewed
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: that morning, no longer claiming that the partially concealed man
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: was thin and white, but testifying instead that he couldn't
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: be sure what he saw. In an incredible twist of fate,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the video footage itself had been deleted. The thirty day
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: trial of the video security system had expired almost exactly
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: on the day of the murder. The surveillance company therefore
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: had already deleted all of the video taken at the
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Sioux home, including the images of the intruder that nan
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Yoo had viewed. Nan Yoo told the court about how
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: both he and his son Justin, had been distraught with
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: grief upon finding Jill. A pool worker present that morning
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: as well as the first responding officer, also testified to
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: the frantic and distraught state in which they found Justin.
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: He was.
• 26:03
  Speaker 16: Gilosy's voice was shaking highly he was just sweeming something.
• 26:10
  Speaker 16: They rolled the search of colored run it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 17: That's scream up in vedical people.
• 26:24
  Speaker 13: Do something. She kind.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Without the video evidence, eyewitness testimony was employed by the
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: defense to poke holes in the state's case. A neighbor
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: of the Sioux family testified that they saw someone that
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: morning who appeared to be pushing something heavy through the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: front door of the house. The witness could not say
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: that it was a body or describe what the object
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: could have been, though it was speculated to be large
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: enough to actually require two individuals to get it through
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: the door. They were also unable to describe if the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: person they saw was black or white, or if they
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: were assisted by someone on the inside of the door.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: There were additional questions with the case against Deonte. No
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: one had reported seeing him at or near the house
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: on the day of the murder, and video footage from
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: the guard gates didn't show him entering. There were also
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: questions about his motivations. If his plan was to commit burglary,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: why stab the homeowner aggressively multiple times, rummaged through a
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: single room of the home, and then leave with nothing.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: But Deonte could not explain the.
• 27:28
  Speaker 18: DNA Deontae Rizillius appear to listen intently today as a
• 27:34
  Speaker 18: pair of high profile DNA experts were called to testify
• 27:37
  Speaker 18: in his murder triumph.
• 27:39
  Speaker 14: I built the DNA databases that helped us determine how
• 27:44
  Speaker 14: often we would expect to find these markers in a population.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Statistically, the samples on the knife and belt were more
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: likely to be Deonte's than anyone else on earth. Curiously,
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: the defense pointed out of the two knives found on
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the scene, the one left in the bathtub was determined
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: to be the murder weapon. This knife, however, did not
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: have Deonte's DNA. It was found to carry only Justin's
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: and his mother's. The defense also pointed to complaints and
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: concerns made against the county's crime lab. A year after
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Deonte's arrest, a private forensic expert had called out the
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: lab after discovering its technicians were falsely claiming certain types
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: of DNA evidence were conclusive.
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: Investigation by the American Society of Crime Lab Directors that
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: found the crime lab has been using faulty methods to
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: conduct DNA tests, including the introduction of a suspect's DNA
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: before the analysis was done, and invalid analysis involving complex
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: mixed DNA samples.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: The concerns led to a review of about two thousand
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: cases by the State Attorney's office. However, there did not
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: seem to be any clear link between these complaints or
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: any inaccuracies in the testing in Deonte's case.
• 29:00
  Speaker 17: Yes, there's quite a lot of consideration has to be
• 29:05
  Speaker 17: undertaken to ensure that there's no cross contamination from one
• 29:11
  Speaker 17: idol to another.
• 29:14
  Speaker 12: DA would have to be there to be you're just
• 29:18
  Speaker 12: having an issue with the.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Additionally, the prosecution presented evidence that Deontae's cell phone went
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: unusually quiet during the exact period of time that the
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: attack on Jill had occurred.
• 29:37
  Speaker 15: His DNA.
• 29:40
  Speaker 8: Is in.
• 29:42
  Speaker 12: The point of entry, and it is at least three
• 29:46
  Speaker 12: point seventy nine Octilian times more likely than.
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: It originated from him.
• 29:51
  Speaker 12: And that's a single source. Even the defenses expert didn't
• 29:55
  Speaker 12: have a problem with that one. She's sitting there in
• 29:58
  Speaker 12: that tun tied up, watching this guy stand over over
• 30:04
  Speaker 12: the ninth and he starts steaming.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: She's already fought with him.
• 30:09
  Speaker 15: She's already.
• 30:12
  Speaker 13: And she has.
• 30:15
  Speaker 14: And gentlemen, the other vents in this case is fully lacking.
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: This now would be under reasonable doubt that mister Micyllis
• 30:28
  Speaker 11: made this storer.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: On the eighth of December twenty twenty one, after five
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: days of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of guilty
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: on the lesser count of manslaughter. As standard procedure, the
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: jury was pulled individually following the declaration of the verdict
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: to ensure each juror was in agreement. In a moment
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: rarely seen in these proceedings, one juror spoke up. This
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: juror the four person declared that they did not agree
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: with the determination of manslaughter. After all, this was a compromise,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: she said, made with three jurors who felt uncomfortable sending
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Deontae as a black man, to a potential death sentence.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: The judge declared a mistrial.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: I just thought like, is this what I am agreeing
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: to or is this what I'm being forced to do.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: It was a lot of conflict, a lot of disagreements.
• 31:25
  Speaker 9: She is the one who fills the paperwork out and
• 31:28
  Speaker 9: turns it into the bailiffs, who turns it into the judge.
• 31:30
  Speaker 9: So there was nobody making her literally do anything. It
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: was all on her own handwriting. We were very frustrated.
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: I don't think anybody was ever made to feel bad
• 31:40
  Speaker 9: about their vote up until that point. I just think
• 31:43
  Speaker 9: that needs to be none. This was not a black
• 31:44
  Speaker 9: versus white jury. There was not a lot of yelling.
• 31:47
  Speaker 9: It was mostly very respectful.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: Jury's selection for the retrial began on the third of
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: January twenty twenty two. Deonte's retrial followed a similar pattern
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: to the first. Based on the conclusions of the previous jury,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: it seemed unlikely that reasonable doubt would be found by
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: the new jury either. Additionally, evidence of his escape from
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: the county jail, as well as the conspiracy to falsify
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: evidence in his murder trial, including his alibi, were outlined
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: in detail as proof of his consciousness of guilt.
• 32:21
  Speaker 15: Because defending his guilty of murder in a first degree
• 32:24
  Speaker 15: that's charged in the end, so say we always eat
• 32:27
  Speaker 15: his day of marsh twenty twenty two had four daughter
• 32:30
  Speaker 15: over our County, Florida, and as.
• 32:32
  Speaker 14: Signed by them.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: This time there was no dissent from the jury. Prosecutors
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: opted not to pursue the death sentence by request of
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Jill's family. Deontae took the stand at his sentencing hearing.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I would never take a wife from my husband. I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: would never take a mother from my child. Says can
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: hooked me up to a polygraph tist at any given time.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Ask me any question you wish in my ass, it
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: would remain the same. I did not kill missus Sue,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: and that's all I have to say into my family.
• 33:10
  Speaker 13: I love y'all.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: I don't want y'all.
• 33:14
  Speaker 15: Don't the only person on the entire planet that knows
• 33:20
  Speaker 15: the last words of my mother.
• 33:24
  Speaker 13: That psychopath right there.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, lie was everything he said because against the foxture?
• 33:33
  Speaker 17: Was it difficult for you to sit there and listen
• 33:35
  Speaker 17: to that?
• 33:35
  Speaker 15: I saw you at times just shaking your head.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: Of course, it's difficult because I don't want to sit
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: there and listening to other lie.
• 33:43
  Speaker 10: And he'd lieing very well.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: In May twenty twenty two, Deontay Rizillaz was sentenced to
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: life in prison. Even if he had been granted some
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: leniency in the sentencing on the murder conviction, he had
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: racked up decades of imprisonment for his other criminal activity.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: He was undeniably guilty of two previous burglary charges, multiple
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: counts related to his jailhouse escape, and another thirty seven charges.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: For his conspiracy to create false evidence. And that was
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: the story of Deonte Mucci, Rizillez and the tragic death
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: of Jill Haliburton. Sue, thanks once again for joining me.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: I'm Kevin. This is just Thought Lounge and I'll see
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: in the next one.